Amazon Connect Architect

Prospect Global Ltd; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Prospect Global Ltd in Edinburgh is seeking an Amazon Connect Solution Architect to design, build and scale cloud-based contact center solutions on AWS. You will own the architecture, guide technical delivery, and work closely with customers to ensure secure, scalable outcomes.

The role is hybrid (2 days a week) with involvement in solution design, governance, and analytics using AWS services such as Connect, Lex, Lambda, and Bedrock.

Qualifications

• Experience designing Amazon Connect and AWS contact center solutions.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into scalable cloud architectures.
• Strong knowledge of IVR, CTI, ACD, and call recording.
• Experience with AWS AI/ML services to enhance CX.
• Security architecture and least-privilege IAM design experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall solution architecture for Amazon Connect including voice routing, IVR design, and agent experience.
• Lead architectural discussions ensuring AWS Well-Architected Framework alignment.
• Define logical and integration architectures aligned with AWS best practices.
• Design and govern Amazon Connect instances, including high availability and multi-region considerations.
• Ensure performance, scalability, and resilience in solution design.
• Define integration patterns using Lambda, APIs, and event-driven mechanisms with data persistence.
• Engage with customers to provide expert guidance on AWS services including Connect, Lex, Lambda, and Bedrock.
• Ensure real-time and post-call analytics using Connect analytics, Contact Lens, and related features.

Skills

Amazon Connect

AWS

Lex

Lambda

APIs

IAM

Contact center tech

Data analytics

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Tools

Salesforce

ServiceNow

Bot platforms

Job description

Location:

Edinburgh — Hybrid (2 days a week)

Duration:

6 to 12 Months

The Role

Our client is on a fast growth trajectory focusing on delivering transformational solutions using the AWS Cloud platform to drive exponential value for our customers. We are scaling up our Solution and Delivery teams in the geography to handle Amazon Connect related contact centre solutions and deliveries, which is a key area of growth. We are looking for talented individuals who could be part of this journey, helping with consulting customers, carrying out projects, assessments and designing solutions to address customer problems. We are looking for Amazon Connect Solution Architect who designs, builds, and scales intelligent, cloud-based contact center solutions.

Your responsibilities

• Own the overall solution architecture for the Amazon Connect platform, including Voice routing and contact flows, IVR design and call lifecycle, Agent experience and operational model
• Lead and contribute to deep architectural discussions, ensuring solutions follow AWS Well-Architected Framework principles (security, reliability, scalability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization).
• Define logical, physical, and integration architectures aligned to AWS best practices
• Design and govern Amazon Connect instances and environments Contact flows, queues, routing profiles, High-availability and multi-region design considerations
• Ensure scalability, performance, and service resilience are embedded into the solution design
• Define integration patterns using AWS Lambda, APIs and event-driven mechanisms, data persistence and downstream system integrations
• Engage with customers at both business and technical levels to understand requirements and provide expert guidance on Amazon Connect, Lex, Lambda, Kendra, Bedrock (GenAI) and broader AWS AI/ML services.
• Ensure real-time and post-call data capture, enrichment, and analytics using Amazon Connect analytics and intelligence features, including Contact Lens for transcription, sentiment, and quality insights, Call recording, monitoring, and reporting
• Ensure analytics solutions meet operational, compliance, and CX reporting needs
• Define the security architecture for Amazon Connect, including AWS IAM roles and least-privilege access

Essential skills/knowledge/experience

• Certified AWS Solution Architect, with real-life solution architecture experience
• Good understanding of contact center technology landscape.
• Proven knowledge of Contact Center technologies including Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Voice Biometrics, Natural Language Processing, Telephony Integration CTI, Automatic Call Distribution ACD, Call Recording and Automation using AI/ML.
• Deep expertise on AWS contact center relevant services.
• Sound experience in developing Amazon Connect flows , AWS Lambda and Lex bots
• Deep functional and technical understanding of APIs and related integration experience
• Functional and technical understanding of building API-based integrations with Salesforce, Service Now and Bot platforms
• Ability to understand customer challenges and requirements, ability to address these challenges/requirements in a differentiated manner.
• Ability to help the team to implement the solution, sell, deliver cloud contact center solutions to clients.
• Experience with AWS technologies such as AWS Lambda, Amazon Lex, DynamoDB, S3, Sagemaker, Contact Lens, Transcribe etc. and how they may be leverage alongside Amazon Connect to enhance contact centre performance
• Well versed with AWS platform and technology services
• Have strong stakeholder management & engagement skills, effective at all levels
• Extensive knowledge of infrastructure planning and provisioning, security considerations, design and deployment, as well as system life cycle management
• Design and deployment of AWS / Hybrid solutions utilising a Cloud Native stack
• Excellent communications skills
• Ability to develop requirements based on leadership connects
• Ability to work effectively in a remote, virtual,